# Is sound playback from url broken?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-sound-playback-from-url-broken/2164556>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** sound\
**Created:** [December 4, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-sound-playback-from-url-broken/2164556 "2022-12-04T18:45:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-sound-playback-from-url-broken/2164556/1 "2022-12-04T18:45:52Z")

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I can’t get any audio files to play if I use a url for the source in a DnD project. I also tried a simple when button click → play sound [url as text block] and that didn’t work either. You can see the disconnected text block with a dropbox url in the project below.

Sample project: [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/1d761ccc031c11ee638db4c8b54e8ca6)

(See the first screen called “Music Player scr”)

Not only does the sound not play, the `play` block never registers anything… the value of the green `error` block is not getting set to true or false.

Bug report here: [Can't play sounds from url · Issue #1201 · thunkable/thunkable-issues · GitHub](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/1201)

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-sound-playback-from-url-broken/2164556/2 "2022-12-13T01:59:46Z")

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This is still an issue. When I attempt to play a sound from a url, it continuously and repeatedly loads the source. Then, sometimes after a couple minutes it plays the sound. Sometimes it doesn’t.

That particular issue occurs in StP.

**Edit:** oddly, if I assign the sound url to a webviewer, the sound plays immediately:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/3/f33bd120b0e9bb511a2e2969524f8ac1c79c47bb.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-sound-playback-from-url-broken/2164556/3 "2023-03-13T02:00:23Z")

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